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Friday, August 25, 2006
Rauf Klasra
ISLAMABAD: As many as 18 top bureaucrats, including a woman, were married to foreigners, disclosed Federal Minister for Parliamentary Affairs Dr Sher Afgan Khan Niazi in the National Assembly here on Thursday.
Thirteen of them were of Indian origin, while the remaining were Bangladeshis, the minister said. Earlier, MNAs debated the issue of marriage of foreign men with Pakistani women. They claimed the Citizenship Act of Pakistan discriminates against Pakistani women married to foreign men. The MPs claimed under the Constitution, every citizen, irrespective of sex, is equal in the eyes of law. According to them, the Citizenship Act permits nationality to only foreign women marrying Pakistani men. “It does not allow nationality to foreign men marrying Pakistani women,” the MPs regretted.
Aitzaz Ahsan told the House the Benazir Bhutto government had approved a policy to give equal rights to women by invoking the Clause 2 of Article 25 after cases of similar nature were brought before him when he was interior minister.
Upon this, Dr Sher Afgan Khan Niazi told the House that a constitutional amendment is needed to give Pakistani women right to enable their foreign husbands get the nationality of Pakistan. Mehnaz Rafi said the lawmakers, who were supporting equal rights for women, had actually played an important role in the National Assembly Committee on Interior in getting rejected a private members bill seeking equal treatment to women marrying foreign men. MNA Kanwar Khalid Younis had introduced the bill. Minister of State for Interior Zafar Warraich said the private members bill was rejected by the committee with consensus.
Online adds: Following is the list of bureaucrats in BS-17 and above, who were married to foreign nationals: Umer Khan of the Export Promotion Bureau; Local Government and Rural Development Secretary Muhammad Humayun Farshori,; Muhammad Idrees, Research Officer at the Ministry of Kashmir Affairs; Jawed Manzoor, Assistant Divisional Engineer in T&T; Asif Marghoob Siddique of the Customs and Excise; Ruhail Mohammad Baloch, Additional Secretary at the Finance Department of Government of Balochistan, Saleem Ullah Khan, DIG Mirpurkhas (Sindh); Dr Ehsan Akhtar, Senior Scientific Officer at the Pakistan Agriculture and Research Council; Mahmood Alam Mahsud of the Auditor-General of Pakistan (Lahore); Javed Akhtar, Press Secretary to the Prime Minister; Ghulam Mahmood Dogar, SP Quetta; Simon Mumtaz, Manager in the Pakistan Postal Service Cooperation; Azhar Saeed Malik, Section Officer in the United Nations Development Projects; Captain (retd) Muhammad Shoaib, District Office, FC; Sania Riffat, PIFRA Director in Lahore; Abdul Majeed, Associate Surgeon at the Jinnah Postgraduate Medical Centre; Fazal Dad Kakar, Assistant Director at the Department of Archaeology, Islamabad; and Ikramullah Khan, Associate Surgeon at the Federal Government Services Hospital, Islamabad.
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